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It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our friend and colleague Dr. Atul Butte. A hui hou Atul. We will miss you.

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For those of you who may not have known him, Dr. Atul Butte, a pioneer in informatics, was the winner of the 2024 Morris F. Collen award, a pinnacle achievement in our field, as part of his storied career. His passing is a major loss to us all. RIP Dr. Butte #MedSky

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My favourite bit about the MAHA report is that every section with dot points comes back as ~100% AI generated and almost all of them contain hallucinations. None of these references really supports the argument here, and the actual statements are also a bit contradictory.

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See, I always love it when a film throws a bunch of money at a couple of academics like this. Fuck yeah Professor Adler, go hog wild in the set shop being uptight about the color of the stone walls

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Roche Gives SBX Updates - and a Name! 🧬🖥️ omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/06/roch...

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New paper where we suggest bacteria in the honeybee stomach may be more interesting to study than generally thought. doi.org/10.1007/s002...

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Happy to announce that our study on the latent cis-regulatory potential of mobile DNA is officially published! TLDR: mobile DNA in bacteria (Insertion Sequences) have a proclivity for evolving new promoters. At least 25% of them probably already encode functional promoters as well.

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Pilot Whale You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay! www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...

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Ira Deveson discusses how they are using Oxford Nanopore sequencing as a single technology to provide genome assemblies to detect complex genomic regions, providing insights into underrepresented populations, rare disease and more. #NanoporeConf

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www.science.org/content/arti...

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Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

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Superb to meet @omicsomics.bsky.social at the #nanporeconf today!

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Oxford Nanopore Should Spin Out Protein Sequencing #nanoporeconf 🧬🖥️ omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/05/oxfo...

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dear, dear gods

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Clive Brown at ONT: A Belated Retrospective 🧬🖥️ omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/05/cliv...

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Come with me as I try to build a modular open-source 24-well Plate Reader from scratch. I'll post updates regularly on this thread and then compile it to my open lab notebook later. Let's make some tools! 🛠️🧵 1/n

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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

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AGBT Flashback: Scale Biosciences’ QuantumScale omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/04/agbt... 🧬🖥️

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"a supporter waved his U.S. birth certificate in court." How are you going to prove your citizenship if they won't let you?

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HHS Secretary Kennedy's company, CHD, published the video of the Texas doctor treating patients while he has visible measles symptoms—it's some sort of promotional video. More below in the Unbiased Science newsletter #medsky

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I ask sincerely, what the hell kind of letter is this for the Acting US Attorney in DC to send to the editor of a medical journal?

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1. This is so poorly written that the sentence that is -- I think -- supposed to convey a semi-veiled legal threat is incomprehensible. 2. I'm jealous of whichever lawyer gets to write the response.

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There’s still about 60 places left in the microbial natural products starter pack - let me know if you’d like added! go.bsky.app/72NeGsT

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Stellaromics Dives into the Thick of Spatial Genomics omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/04/stella… 🧬🖥️

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🧬🖥️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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MIT following Harvard's lead here

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This is pretty incredible. In the bowels of the UT Insect Collection we’ve found some Chagas bugs collected and identified by Carlos Chagas himself!

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Will the Result Be GeneXpertION? My take on the Oxford Nanopore - Cepheid partnership 🖥️🧬 omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/04/will...

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NEWSFLASH: At least 12 members of Congress are flying Appeal to Heaven flags outside their offices. Great reporting from @marabim.bsky.social tracking Congress & January 6th symbolism. The ATH flag is a symbol of Christian supremacy & political-spiritual warfare. baptistnews.com/article/a-vi...

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Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.

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My new post is about MAHA, chronic disease, and why it's correct to say that the diabetes rate in the US has been falling for over a decade. gidmk.substack.com/p/diabetes-r...

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cool

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Dating Bacteria is hard due to the lack of maxima. Assuming aerobes likely postdated the GOE gave us better resolved ages, but also surprised us, but not Dr Dayhoff, showing O2 use predated its atmospheric rise by 900 Mys and helped oxygenic photosynthesis to evolve. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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LinkedIn’s recommendation engine could be outperformed by a drunk pigeon

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HHS laid off experts at FDA on sterile manufacturing for drugs. This includes eye drops sold at US drugstores. Some of you remember the tainted eye drops scandal in 2023 that incl some deaths & blindness due to unsafe manufacturing practices overseas. Sterile manufacturing is critical: ⬇️ #medsky

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Recovery of 679 metagenome-assembled genomes from different soil depths along a precipitation gradient www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

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Computational analysis of DNA methylation from long-read sequencing www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

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Groucho Marx would be paying an extra €110 to attend ESHG

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New Microbe Profile: Streptomyces venezuelae, a model species for the genus. Genetically tractable and completes its life cycle in liquid culture in 24 hours. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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